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Search for byte position of a string within a file

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eholdo

eholdo

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May 30, 2002
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need to find a way to return the byte position of a string within a file. csh method is needed.
Thanks!
 
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Try nawk

Code: 
nawk 'BEGIN {bytepos=0}{sumlinebytes+=length($0);strpos=match($0,"[COLOR=red]yourstring[/color]");if (strpos) {bytepos=sumlinebytes+strpos-length($0);exit} } END {print bytepos}' [COLOR=red]yourfile[/color]
 
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